Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, Volume 2

Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, Volume 2

Author: Dragos Calma

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-10-20

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9004440682

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Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, published in three volumes, is a fresh, comprehensive understanding of the history of Neoplatonism from the 9th to the 16th century. The impact of the Elements of Theology and the Book of Causes is reconsidered on the basis of newly discovered manuscripts and evidences. This second volume revises widely accepted hypotheses about the reception of the Proclus’ text in Byzantium and the Caucasus, and about the context that made possible the composition of the Book of Causes and its translations into Latin and Hebrew. The contributions offer a unique, comparative perspective on the various ways a pagan author was acculturated to the Abrahamic traditions.


Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, Volume 3: On Causes and the Noetic Triad

Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, Volume 3: On Causes and the Noetic Triad

Author: Dragos Calma

Publisher: Studies in Platonism, Neoplato

Published: 2022-01-20

Total Pages: 660

ISBN-13: 9789004501324

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This volume gathers contributions on key concepts elaborated in the Platonic tradition (Proclus, Plotinus, Porphyry or Sallustius) and reconsidered by Arabic (e.g. Avicenna, the Book of Causes), Byzantine (e.g. Maximus the Confessor, Ioane Petritsi) and Latin authors (e.g. Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas etc.).


Proklu diadochu Stoicheiosis theologike

Proklu diadochu Stoicheiosis theologike

Author: Proclus

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780198140979

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Proclus' Elements of Theology is a concise summa of the Neoplatonic system in its fully developed form; and for the student of late Greek thought second in importance only to the Enneads of Plotinus. Professor Dodds has provided a critical text based on a personal examination of some forty manuscripts, together with an English translation and a philosophical and linguistic commentary. First published in 1933, this second edition includes an Appendix of Addenda et Corrigenda and is widelyregarded and respected as the definitive edition of the text today.


Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, Volume 3

Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, Volume 3

Author: Dragos Calma

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-01-17

Total Pages: 657

ISBN-13: 9004501339

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Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, published in three volumes, is a fresh, comprehensive understanding of the history of Neoplatonism from the 9th to the 16th century. This third volume gathers contributions on key concepts of the Platonic tradition (Proclus, Plotinus, Porphyry or Sallustius) inherited and reinterpreted by Arabic (e.g. Avicenna, the Book of Causes), Byzantine (e.g. Maximus the Confessor, Ioane Petritsi) and Latin authors (e.g. Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Berthold of Moosburg, Marsilio Ficino etc.). Two major themes are presently studied: causality (in respect to the One, the henads, the self-constituted substances and the first being) and the noetic triad (being-life-intellect).


All from One

All from One

Author: Pieter d' Hoine

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 0199640335

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Proclus (412-485 A.D.) was one of the last official "successors" of Plato at the head of the Academy in Athens at the end of Antiquity, before the school was finally closed down in 529. As a prolific author of systematic works on a wide range of topics and one of the most influential commentators on Plato of all times, the legacy of Proclus in the cultural history of the west can hardly be overestimated. This book introduces the reader to Proclus' life and works, his place in the Platonic tradition of Antiquity, and the influence his work exerted in later ages. Various chapters are devoted to Proclus' metaphysical system, including his doctrines about the first principle of all reality, the One, and about the Forms and the soul. The broad range of Proclus' thought is further illustrated by highlighting his contribution to philosophy of nature, scientific theory, theory of knowledge, and philosophy of language. Finally, also his most original doctrines on evil and providence, his Neoplatonic virtue ethics, his complex views on theology and religious practice, and his metaphysical aesthetics receive separate treatments. This book is the first to bring together the leading scholars in the field and to present a state of the art of Proclean studies today. In doing so, it provides the most comprehensive introduction to Proclus' thought currently available.


Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes Volume 1

Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes Volume 1

Author: Dragos Calma

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-05-15

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 9004395113

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Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, published in three volumes, is a fresh, comprehensive understanding of Proclus’ legacy in the Hellenic, Byzantine, Islamic, Latin and Hebrew traditions. The history of the Book of Causes, an Islamic adaptation of mainly Proclus’ Elements of Theology and Plotinus' Enneads, is reconsidered on the basis of newly discovered manuscripts. This first volume enriches our understanding of the diverse reception of Proclus’ Elements of Theology and of the Book of Causes in the Western tradition where universities and religious schools offered unparalleled conditions of diffusion. The volume sheds light on overlooked authors, texts, literary genres and libraries from all major European universities from the 12th to the 16th centuries.


Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Parmenides

Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Parmenides

Author: Proclus,

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1992-10-21

Total Pages: 668

ISBN-13: 9780691020891

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This is the first English translation of Proclus' commentary on Plato's Parmenides. Glenn Morrow's death occurred while he was less than halfway through the translation, which was completed by John Dillon. A major work of the great Neoplatonist philosopher, the commentary is an intellectual tour de force that greatly influenced later medieval and Renaissance thought. As the notes and introductory summaries explain, it comprises a full account of Proclus' own metaphysical system, disguised, as is so much Neoplatonic philosophy, in the form of a commentary.


Proclus

Proclus

Author: Radek Chlup

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-04-26

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0521761484

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An introduction to the philosophical and religious thought of Proclus the Neoplatonist, one of the most complex thinkers of antiquity.